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randilynne
posted 08/05/2009, comments (0)

ultimatums, threats,pleas, and guilt

My father died early sunday morning after a long battle with prostate cancer. He had smoked for most of my childhood but quit 25 years ago, with the excepition of an occasional hidden, stale kool.  By the time we were each 17 my two sisters and i were smoking with parental permission.  My sister, Merri was the first quitter. ... Read moreChevron
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Kathi MacNaughton

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RN health writer & family caregiver for a person living with COPD
posted 08/01/2009, comments (0)

Just Diagnosed with COPD -- Coping With the Shock

You've just come from your doctor's appointment where you were told some shocking news -- you have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, also known as COPD. It's an incurable, slowly progressive respiratory illness. Though you may have been hearing for years about the dangers of smoking, or noticing that you were getting more and more short of... Read moreChevron
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Kathi MacNaughton

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RN health writer & family caregiver for a person living with COPD
posted 08/01/2009, comments (0)

COPD Caregiver Perspectives - Dealing with Depression

This is the fifth post in an ongoing series on the 5-stage grieving process experienced by those caring for a person with COPD. It's not easy being a caregiver for someone with COPD. Watching them slowly lose the person they once were is extremely tough to live through. Losing hope is almost inevitable, at least some of the time.   The next... Read moreChevron
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Kathi MacNaughton

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RN health writer & family caregiver for a person living with COPD
posted 07/15/2009, comments (0)

COPD Caregiver Perspectives: Bargaining for Hope

This is the fourth post in an ongoing series on the 5-stage grieving process experienced by those caring for a person with COPD. Watching someone you love die by inches isn't easy, is it? So, it's only natural to do everything you can to try to change their fate (and yours).   The next stage in the grieving process, after anger, is often... Read moreChevron
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Jim Christopher

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Former smoker, Author & Addiction Specialist
posted 07/15/2009, comments (0)

Mortality Focus: Cigarettes Have Consequences

When icons die -- especially one after the other, e.g., Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, and the legendary Michael Jackson -- we, at least momentarily, tend to focus on our own mortality. Life in progress or finite follies as I sometimes call it, can include powerful addictive disorders. When celebrities croak, we may feel more vulnerable than usual and... Read moreChevron
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